Word: secretly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That Dr. Carmichael was swapping a president's chair for a dean's without the prospect of something higher seemed unlikely to most observers. No secret is it that old Dr. Kirkland would like to resign and devote more time to raising his prize iris blossoms, famed among Tennessee horticulturists. Last week Oliver Cromwell Carmichael looked like nothing so much as Vanderbilt's next chancellor, the man who will put a new educational pattern into effect...
...Spain, Italy and throughout South America last week doffed their caps to their colleagues in Poland. Polish censors had done the sort of job that is every censor's greatest ambition. The high command of the Polish Army had known it for weeks, so had the Cabinet, the secret police. Government plans had been drawn up and every preparation made. Yet not until it was all over did the world know that Poland's most powerful son, the shaggy-browed old walrus, Marshal Josef Pilsudski had died of cancer of the stomach and liver...
...nights of pleasure, helps him out of less pleasurable days. When Mr. Norris turns Communist his young friend is delighted. But when he discovers at last that he has been made a tool in an extremely nefarious scheme by which Mr. Norris is trying to sell German Communist secrets to the French secret service, our hero sees through the old codger at last. For old times' sake he helps Mr. Norris make his getaway, wishes himself a good riddance...
...Department must on its face command the approval of everyone. A young man, esteemed by his colleagues in the Medical School, he should bring with him the vitality, courage, and skill that circumstances demand. That the care of student health at Harvard requires these qualities is no deep, dark secret...
...Pulitzer Prizes were announced, the news amounted to little more than confirmation of what Gossiper Walter Winchell had already told the world. Determined to safeguard every breath of thunder, the Columbia University Trustees this year canceled the customary advance releases to the Press, kept the winners' names secret for the formal announcement last week at a Manhattan banquet...